Excellent management of foot baths on farms is the foundation of a successful hoof-health program. Foot baths have for decades been a management tool used to abate dairy-cattle lameness. There are many ways to design, manage and maintain foot baths to improve hoof health and decrease lameness in herds. Foot-bath design, number of immersions per hoof, cow passes per clean solution, solution concentration and solution pH are all major contributors to the effectiveness of a foot bath.
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Eliza Ruzic is a Wisconsin accounts manager with Zinpro, a mission sponsor of Professional Dairy Producers®.
